For the long history of such games (where people actually wrote the rather simple AI code for their avatar), take a look at RobotWar and its various later clones like C-Robots and Omega.
thanks! I didn't know about Robotwar and its fascinating, I just wanted to democratize this through normal english prompts, so anyone regardless of their coding ability can participate. Tbh this has been a dream of mine since childhood but I never had the ability to execute until the dawn of Cursor, Claude, and v0 :)
I love the idea of having an AI prompt to write code for the bots. There are already games like https://screeps.com/ or https://store.steampowered.com/app/2060160/The_Farmer_Was_Re... where you program your bot to do things, but they do require some minimal coding experience. Being able to describe behavior in plain english would be pretty cool.
However, I think having real-time feedback is a huge part of games like this. You try a command or two, see what unexpected thing happens, rapidly iterate and try again, one step at a time. Having to submit every prompt revision to you (even for testing) makes it hard to iterate. Any chance you'd want to build a thin web wrapper over it so players can sign up and try it on their own?
you're right, i'm working on it now and will share it as soon as its done. you will be able to just write your prompt and test it live (load it into your ship and see it in action!)
thanks for the note! I didn't know about this game tbf, I don't have a name yet for the project. It just started out as a 2d space shooter, and evolved as an AI controlled game
For the long history of such games (where people actually wrote the rather simple AI code for their avatar), take a look at RobotWar and its various later clones like C-Robots and Omega.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RobotWar
thanks! I didn't know about Robotwar and its fascinating, I just wanted to democratize this through normal english prompts, so anyone regardless of their coding ability can participate. Tbh this has been a dream of mine since childhood but I never had the ability to execute until the dawn of Cursor, Claude, and v0 :)
I love the idea of having an AI prompt to write code for the bots. There are already games like https://screeps.com/ or https://store.steampowered.com/app/2060160/The_Farmer_Was_Re... where you program your bot to do things, but they do require some minimal coding experience. Being able to describe behavior in plain english would be pretty cool.
However, I think having real-time feedback is a huge part of games like this. You try a command or two, see what unexpected thing happens, rapidly iterate and try again, one step at a time. Having to submit every prompt revision to you (even for testing) makes it hard to iterate. Any chance you'd want to build a thin web wrapper over it so players can sign up and try it on their own?
you're right, i'm working on it now and will share it as soon as its done. you will be able to just write your prompt and test it live (load it into your ship and see it in action!)
FYI there is already a tower defense game series called AI War on Steam. It doesn't use code, but the name is similar enough to be confusing. https://store.steampowered.com/app/573410/AI_War_2/
thanks for the note! I didn't know about this game tbf, I don't have a name yet for the project. It just started out as a 2d space shooter, and evolved as an AI controlled game